Hudson River Water Landing

I must say that I'm impressed with the landing last week on the Hudson River. The US Airways jet whose engines were knocked out by a flight of birds on take-off, landed with nose up in the river, with a nice splash. What amazed me was seeing all of the passengers either standing or sitting on the wings....and the ferries (locally called water taxis) coming to their aid, plucking the people off of the plane.

I've often wondered what it would be like to be in a plane that crashed, and to survive. I'm sure somebody will write a book about it....